Notices by Simon Phipps (webmink@meshed.cloud), page 3

While Public Resource.Org pushes to open up the law and the #standards that implement it, ISO/IEC are devising new ways to lock it all up https://www.iso.org/smart

@webmink @carlmalamud I agree law and standards should be open, but I don't see the logic that it should be free to comply. Compliance with the law typically involves plenty of expenses (equipment, tools, materials, time); what distinguishes patents from these? We need to clarify this otherwise the argument doesn't work.

@ingram
The difference is ETSI is a private members club so is paid for by their membership fees and does not need to paywall their publications.
@carlmalamud

@kurtseifried That is pretty much what has happened, and it has been surprisingly effective.

@a
I think the SFC's devroom wants to do that.

There is still time to apply for inclusion in the EU #Policy Devroom at #FOSDEM - the application deadline is December 1st.

This is our second instance of a workspace for #OpenSource community members to engage with EU lawmakers to ensure new law reflects the realities of open source and #FreeSoftware. We seek legislation that understands #SoftwareFreedom matters.

Full details:
https://softwarefreedom.net/fosdem-25-cfp

A basic human right, access to the #law in #Europe includes access to the harmonised #standards it predicates. But is it right that those standards can include royalty-due #patents (#SEPs), making compliance subject to payment to the private companies that wrote the standards?

https://the.webm.ink/patents-and-the-presumption-of-conformity

We have @carlmalamud to thank for making the European Commission admit that harmonised standards form part of the public law. Now we need to make sure everyone can legally comply without paying royalties to the companies who write the standards.

https://the.webm.ink/patents-and-the-presumption-of-conformity

#CRA #Policy #SoftwareFreedom #Patents

The topic of adding clauses related to compliance with local law to #OpenSource licenses has come up in my mailbox again.

tl;dr: Don't do this! It creates uncertainty and probably makes a #license non-compliant with the OSD.

https://the.webm.ink/just-obey-the-law

#Licensing #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #Licencing

The #CRA is now published in the Official Journal so comes into force as European law in 20 days. Next task: the #standards.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:L_202402847

#Policy #OpenSource

Pleased to see the FSF is also taking the AI bubble seriously.
https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-is-working-on-freedom-in-machine-learning-applications

#SoftwareFreedom #AI

I've been testing a federated classified ads server, flohmarkt ("Flea Market") which I think is a promising idea for promoting a circular economy among friends. Details on my hub.

It raises quite a few questions for me though - it's going to need more trust & safety features than other #Activitypub applications for example.

https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware

Notable points from #Crowdstrike CEO message:
* This is a minor outage that only affects Windows (so it's no biggie)
* We are working with impacted customers (who are to blame, not us)
* Please only use official channels (the press is biased)
* [...] (I do not intend to apologise)

Guessing they will soon have some vacancies...

The Apache Software Foundation is getting rid of its anachronistic Feather logo and related branding.

https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/evolving-the-asf-brand

#OpenSource #Marketing #FreeSoftware #Apache #Governance #Indigenous

Switzerland passes law requiring #OpenSource software in the public sector. "All public bodies must disclose the source code of software developed by or for them, unless precluded by third-party rights or security concerns" Well done @maemst, great work!

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/news/new-open-source-law-switzerland

@cpswan I am watching that case with great interest...

@Suiseiseki
I wrote my view on this here: https://the.webm.ink/getting-back-to-a-social-frame

@Suiseiseki
That's what I do. That's what everyone I know does. It is no longer 2001.

IBM CEO: "“If you want people to contribute, it has to be clearly open source, it cannot actually just be open source marketing,”

https://venturebeat.com/ai/ibm-ceo-praises-real-open-source-for-enterprise-gen-ai-as-new-efforts-emerge-at-think-2024/

#AI #OpenSource

A small change to the most recent (Parliament-approved) version of the Cyber Resilience Act (#CRA) is the addition of a requirement that software be "openly shared" in order for the European Union to consider it #OpenSource in relation to the CRA.

https://the.webm.ink/openly-shared

#SoftwareFreedom #FreeSoftware